Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration


Authors: Dong Jie

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Publisher: Encounters

Published Date: 2011

Language: en

Description: Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive identity construction used to present its data.